Days of Shattered Faith
Dec 2024 · Bloomsbury Publishing
4.9star
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Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, inheritor to the necromantic dominion that was the Moeribandi Empire and tomorrow's frontline in the Palleseen's relentless march to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world.
Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time.
As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct Appreciation, Outreach department, she's here as aide to the Palleseen Resident, Sage-Invigilator Angilly. And Sage-Invigilator Angilly – Gil to her friends – needs a second in the spectacularly illegal, culturally offensive and diplomatically inadvisable duel she must fight at midnight.
Outreach, that part of the Pal machine that has to work within the imperfection of the rest of the world, has a lot of room for the illegal, the unconventional, the unorthodox. But just how much unorthodoxy can Gil and Loret get away with?
As a succession crisis looms, as a long-forgotten feat of necromantic engineering nears fruition, as pirate kings, lizard armies and demons gather, as old gods wane and new gods wax, sooner or later Gil and Loret will have to settle their ledger.
Just as well they are both very, very good with a blade...
Also in the TYRANT PHILOSOPHERS series:
CITY OF LAST CHANCES
HOUSE OF OPEN WOUNDS
LIVES OF BITTER RAIN
Loret is fresh off the boat, and just in time.
As Cohort-Invigilator of Correct Appreciation, Outreach department, she's here as aide to the Palleseen Resident, Sage-Invigilator Angilly. And Sage-Invigilator Angilly – Gil to her friends – needs a second in the spectacularly illegal, culturally offensive and diplomatically inadvisable duel she must fight at midnight.
Outreach, that part of the Pal machine that has to work within the imperfection of the rest of the world, has a lot of room for the illegal, the unconventional, the unorthodox. But just how much unorthodoxy can Gil and Loret get away with?
As a succession crisis looms, as a long-forgotten feat of necromantic engineering nears fruition, as pirate kings, lizard armies and demons gather, as old gods wane and new gods wax, sooner or later Gil and Loret will have to settle their ledger.
Just as well they are both very, very good with a blade...
Also in the TYRANT PHILOSOPHERS series:
CITY OF LAST CHANCES
HOUSE OF OPEN WOUNDS
LIVES OF BITTER RAIN
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4.9
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Neil Blanch
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December 7, 2024
The first two books in this series are without any doubt the best fantasy I've read this decade, so the bar is set pretty high especially after the incredible House of Open Wounds. There's a slower start to this one, and a lack of the desperation that marked the first two, but Days of Shattered Faith doesn't disappoint. Adrian's work continues to be poetic, revolutionary (quite literally) and unashamedly humane. There's a black sense of humor running like a vein under the delicious prose, brilliant characters and a setting that becomes ever more fractal in its complexity. Read the first two first of course, but this is yet nother cracker of a book from the most vital voice in fantasy right now. The audiobook is another delight for those who prefer a reading. Buy this book and the other two and the rewards are endless. Simply brilliant. The only books that come close is Alan Moore's the Great When and that's the highest praise I can give.
Michael Brady
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January 10, 2025
Just Wow. By this 3rd book you are heavily invested in the characters and this story does not disappoint. Well written, well plotted and a great ending. If this is the final tome in this series I, for one, will be forever mulling over what happens next. Fantastic in every sense.
Corey Holcomb-Hockin
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January 4, 2025
great
About the author
Adrian Tchaikovsky was born in Lincolnshire before heading off to Reading to study psychology and zoology. He subsequently ended up in law and has worked as a legal executive in both Reading and Leeds, where he now lives. Married, he is a keen live role-player and occasional amateur actor and has trained in stage-fighting. He's the author of Children of Time, the winner of the 30th Anniversary Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Sunday Times bestseller Shards of Earth.
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